Thermal heterogeneity constitutes a marker for the detection of malignant gastric lesions in vivo

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-218

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a,c   Chrysohoou, Christina ^a   Paraskevas, Emmanouel ^b   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Xynopoulos, Demetrios ^b   Dimitroulopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Petraki, Kalliopi ^a   Papadimitriou, Constantina ^a   Karoutsos, Kyriakos ^a   Pitsavos, Christos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Malignancy; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DYSPLASIA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROSCOPE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH LESION; TEMPERATURE; THERMISTOR; THERMOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ROC CURVE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037369130     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200303000-00006     Document Type: Article

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